Get Away Quotes - Page 30

• You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right.

  George Lucas

  Beach, Years, Lots Of Friends

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response.

  Aimee Garcia

  Drama, Fall, Writing

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• I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.

  Leslie Parrish

  Children, Struggle, Mean

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Being Yourself, Mean

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Many people see themselves as a problem that needs to be solved. They also habitually see the present moment as an obstacle that they need to overcome or get away from. With awareness, an inner sense of spaciousness arises that enables you to look at your own mind, which is to say the human mind, with a certain degree of detachment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Mind, Needs

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  White, Black, Doe

  "'Our Sassy Black Friend' Jamaica Kincaid". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2013.

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• I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.

  Patti Smith

  Thinking, Ancestry, Gender

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Rap, Home

  "Chris Rock: Never Scared". TV Special, www.imdb.com. April 17, 2004.

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• I see some people with glasses here, I trust people with glasses, don't you? But if you're wearing your glasses like this ... "Get away from 'em!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Glasses

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• Henry Ford didn't just create a cheap way of getting away from your in-laws; he basically understood that there was something in us as a culture that wanted to be on the move, that wanted to get out.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Moving, Law, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Welcome to my garage. This is where I go to get away from the Honey-Do list.

  Bill Engvall

  Funny, Humor, Honey

  "Bill Engvall: 15º Off Cool". TV Special, www.imdb.com. March 25, 2007.

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• By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.

  Andre Johnson

  Athlete, Thinking, People

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

  Joel Plaskett

  Wife, Balance, Trying

  "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.

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• I toured for about 2 1/2 years on twentythree and then I took about a year off. I really just spent some good quality time by myself at my house, cooking, watching movies, hanging with my friends, and family. I just really needed a chance to get away from the music for a minute and decompress.

  Tristan Prettyman

  Years, House, Cooking

  Source: www.roomthirteen.com

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• Obviously, I like things that are cute and aggressive at the same time, but I didn't want it to just be mini-bangs and lip-syncing in a dress. I need to get away from that stuff.

  Grimes

  Cute, Bangs, Dresses

  "Grimes: 'Genesis'". Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I just happen to be a sucker for humor. So anywhere I can sneak in something that I find potentially interesting or funny I do it as much as I can get away with.

  Johnny Depp

  Sneak In, Interesting, Sucker

  "Johnny Depp Interview PUBLIC ENEMIES". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 1, 2009.

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• Addiction has had such an impact on my life and the people I love, and there really is not a lot about it that is funny. So the last thing I wanted was to give the impression that it’s all fun and games, and isn’t it funny what she gets away with.

  Edie Falco

  Fun, Impact, Games

  "A Conversation With Edie Falco". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. April 6, 2012.

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• The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."

  Heywood Broun

  Baseball, Chivalry, Tradition

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• It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

  Henry Reed

  Spiritual, Sleep, Thinking

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• I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.

  William Joyce

  Book, Office, Littles

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• Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

  Warren Ellis

  Notebook, Years, Shining

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• The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

  Christopher Morley

  Media, Mind, Evening

  Christopher Morley “Kitty Foyle”

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• You can't get away from who you are I guess.

  Marc Edwards

  Who You Are

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• This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.

  James Brown

  Peace, Drug, Mind

  Song: King Heroin

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• I have figured for you the distance between the horns of a dilemma, night and day, and A and Z. I have computed how far is Up, how long it takes to get Away, and what becomes of Gone. I have discovered the length of the sea serpent, the price of priceless, and the square of the hippopotamus. I know where you are when you are at Sixes and Sevens, how much Is you have to have to make an Are, and how many birds you can catch with the salt in the ocean - 187,796,132, if it would interest you.

  James Thurber

  Distance, Ocean, Night

  James Thurber, Marc Simont (1998). “Many Moons”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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